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            HeuristScholar.org, a Collaborative KnowledgeSpace (CKS) for Humanities scholars
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        <p><span style="font-weight: bold"><font size="4">HEURIST</font></span></p>
        
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            <b>Heurist</b> is the core KnowledgeSpace application. It captures and manages all your web bookmarks, bibliographic references, personal notes
            and a host of other specialised data types (expandable) in a simple, searchable web interface, available anywhere. Easily and quickly find,
            capture and share relevant information, organise information resources and
            publish teaching/research
            project web site content automatically. 
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                        <b>Integrated bibliography and notes:</b><br>
                        All your web/bibliographic references, with notes attached, will be in one place
                        and easily searchable and reusable. From anywhere in the world!<br>&nbsp;
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                        <b>Remember information:</b><br>
                        You should never again lose your web bookmarks or spend time looking for a
                        reference or web page you visited previously. Once seen, never forgotten.<br>&nbsp;
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                        <b>Organise your resources:</b><br>
                        Bookmarks, notes and references can be tagged (keyworded)
                        to link them to your projects, courses, topics, administrative units etc., and
                        retrieved by tag.<br>&nbsp;
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                        <b>Dynamic content:</b><br>
                        Class readings, project web pages, annotated links pages
                        and bibliographies can be dynamically generated from the database. Add a
                        reference and all your web pages are immediately updated.<br>&nbsp;
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                        <b>Social bookmarking:</b><br>
                        Find new references, share them with colleagues, find
                        out who else shares your interests, and find out what references are rated
                        highly by people in a particular field.<br>
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                        <b>Flexible entity definitions<br>
                        </b>Heurist can handle a wide variety of other entities - research projects,
                        grants, researchers, methods, thesis topics, historical events, C14 dates
                        etc. - and can store spatial objects and uploaded files, making it an ideal
                        platform for making databases of almost anything! If you want to add a new
                        entity type/fields to an existing entity type, contact the development team
                        (new entity types can be added in minutes).<br>&nbsp;
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        <p><span style="font-weight: bold"><font size="4">T1000</font></span></p>
        
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            The <b>T1000</b> database wizard allows you to build stable, well-structured, easily modified web database
            applications in minutes without any knowledge of database programming. Databases generated with the
            T1000 wizard use portable, open-source software (MySQL and PHP) and automatically support passworded
            access, validated input, file upload, coordinates and web mapping, free text searching, pre-defined
            lookups, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships, delivery of data as a web service, RSS feeds -
            all without any extra work on your part. They can run on the Heurist server, or
            be downloaded and copied onto your server. T1000 provides the core
            functionality of Heurist and all our other online database applciations.
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            <font size="4"><span style="font-weight: 700">Special databases</span> </font></p>
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            We have developed a small number of special-purpose databases, some of which
            are simply specialised views of the Heurist database. These currently include:</p>

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                <p style="width: 90%;">Assets and loans tracker</p>
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                <p style="width: 90%;">Job tracking system</p>
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            Others will be developed as required or requested.<br>
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            Heurist and T1000 have been developed by a team at the <a target="_blank" href="http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au">Archaeological Computing Laboratory</a>, 
            University of Sydney, under the direction of <a target="_blank" href="http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=65">Ian Johnson</a>, 
            for use by all members of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) and other interested academics. The project is funded by the Research Institute
            For Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS), the Faculty of Arts and the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).
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